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France beat Croatia 4-2 in the football final in Moscow on Sunday – its second World Cup victory in 20 years.
Hundreds of thousands of fans lined the Champs-Elysées in central Paris to welcome the team.
The players were honored with a parade on the main artery of the capital and a presidential reception.
After landing in Paris, the winners of the World Cup opened
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The Frenchman Hugo Lloris holds the trophy of the World Cup after landing in Paris
Captain Hugo Lloris and coach Didier Deschamps are the first to emerge from the plane, wearing the gold trophy of the competition to the enthusiastic crowds of fans who have gathered to welcome them .
Later, the team descends the Champs-Elysees in a victory bus, while air force aircraft greeted them above their heads – trailing smoke in the national colors of the red , white and blue.
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Nine aircraft of the Patrouille de France, acrobatic unit of the Army of l & # 39; French air, perform an honorary flight over the team on the Champs-Elysees
One of the players, Raphaël Varane, tweeted this video of the parade:
Later, the team was greeted at the presidential palace of the Elysee Palace by President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte , who joined them French National Anthem on the steps of the palace.
Later, Mr. Macron thanked the players for "making us proud".
"Never forget where you come from: all the clubs in France who have trained," he told them in the palace gardens.
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World Cup with the player Paul Pogba
Some 3,000 people were invited to the presidential reception, including 1,000 young people from football clubs in the country, like Bondy, the Parisian suburb where Kylian Mbappé, 19, began her career, "in order to host The Blues"
Among the joyous manifestations of national pride, there have also been reports of female fans badually harbaded.
A Twitter user collated reports from other users on the type of harbadment on Sunday night, ranging from forced kisses to inappropriate touching.
I let you observe the horrible evening that the male delicacy made pbad to far too many women last night …
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– Kateya (@KateyaV) 16 July 2018
End of @KateyaV's Twitter Message
The fans celebrated all over France overnight, but the celebrations in some cities were also marked by violence. Police fired tear gas while sporadic clashes erupted in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Rouen.
Dozens of young people broke into a Champs-Elysees store and stole wine and champagne
The Paris transport company RATP said it was celebrating the success of the Blues by renaming some resorts after winners.
Among them are Victor Hugo Lloris, after the captain of the team and goalkeeper, and Deschamps-Elysees, in the honor of the coach.
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